WIM HOF METHOD – RUST BOOK REVIEWS
Welcome to the Rust book reviews where we share our latest reads. I’m sure you’ll spot a theme in here somewhere but initially the books are focussed on topics to improve mind, body and performance.
ROAD TRIPPIN – RUST MUSIC REVIEWS
Welcome to the Rust road sessions where we share our favourite road trip tunes.
BLOG – SECONDHAND BUYERS GUIDE – DO YOU ALWAYS GET WHAT YOU EXPECT?
We buy a ’22 KTM 500 from a reputable dealer in the UK. What you can learn from our experience.
BIARRITZ MOTO CULTURE
MOTO CULTURE IN BIARRITZ Travelling through Biarritz (at the bottom of the Bay of Biscay – France…) we stumbled across two very different but very dynamic moto-emporia L’EGOISTE There’s a small shop on Rue Gambetta – No.13 – that catches the eye. The shop window is restrained yet immediately attractive. The old scooter may […]
SAND RAIDERS pays homage to the Dakar
DESERT SONS Welcome to Sand Raiders, a rally that pays wonderful homage to the Dakar Rally’s fantastic past… THIS is a sporty trip, one of endurance, tackling tricky tracks, where everyone helps, waits for his group, where we can taste the local culinary specialities and where we completely enjoy the true feeling of freedom which […]
GS TROPHY FEMMES PT.2
Day Two of the BMW Motorrad International GS Trophy Female Team Qualifying 2017 and everything got very real – 17 hours of very real… Tuesday 14 November, 2017 Country Trax, Amersfoort, South Africa The BMW Motorrad International GS Trophy Female Team Qualifying 2017 Day Two Review The second day of the BMW Motorrad International GS Trophy […]
SPORTS CAMPS BULGARIA
DUAL SPORTS – SPORT CAMPS BULGARIA If you’re a sport fanatic like myself and you fancy skiing/snowboarding and trail riding, don’t despair, you can do both! Some time ago we received a call at the office from someone claiming he had a setup whereby you could go snowboarding in the morning and trail riding in […]
Bike Shed London 2018 Show
Bike Shed London 2018 Show RUST headed over to Tobacco Dock in East London to check out the 2018 Bike Shed show.
DAKAR 2018 REPORT #2
After six days it’s still anyone’s game in the 2018 Dakar with the top-six seperated by just ten minutes Friday 12th January 2018 WHO LEADS? Kevin Benavides (Monster Energy Honda) leads, but not by much. The sand dunes in Peru certainly leveled the playing field, only can we say that? These were giant dunes at […]
THE ROAD OF BONES
Looking for an adventure? Somewhere remote, with bears in the wilderness, mosquitos as ferocious as the bears, zombie towns and a long disused road with a tragic past, broken bridges and river washouts. Then come to the Road of Bones, the real Road of Bones… Not the gravel road (fast becoming a gravel highway) from […]
BMW GS TROPHY FEMMES PT.5
Here’s a recap on the outcome of the BMW Motorrad International GS Trophy Female Team Qualifying 2017Â The BMW Motorrad International GS Trophy Female Team Qualifying 2017 The Finalists The BMW Motorrad International GS Trophy Female Team Qualifying 2017 concluded with something of a shock outcome. After four days of competition at the Country Trax […]
BMW GS TROPHY FEMMES
In November 2017 23 women from around the world travelled to South Africa to compete for what would be six places in the International Female Teams that will attend the BMW Motorrad International GS Trophy in Mongolia in June 2018. This is the story of their four-day quest. Here: Day One. Monday 13 November, 2017 […]
AN IDIOT ABROAD
AN IDIOT ABROAD With just a few days’ notice Team RUST were invited to race the Gotland Grand National. Two of us knew what lay in store. One did not. Guess who pulled the short straw..? Here’s a question for you. What is the biggest enduro in the world? Erzberg? Weston? Le Touquet? Wrong. Wrong. […]
JONNY WALKER
JONNY WALKER When Jonny Walker headed into 2016 as the top man in extreme enduro, having deposed Graham Jarvis, the future looked there for the taking… JONNY WALKER IS the kid from Keswick (a small town in the rural North East of England). He holds onto that, almost jealously. He’s an international moto-star but in […]
R3 RALLY RAID PORTUGAL – ROUND 1
RUST committed to the Portuguese R3 Rally Raid Series for 2017. Round One at Santiago Do Cacem took place at the end of January and we were there – with bells on! In RUST 21 Warren M. got totally seduced by the rally raid experience in Portugal, so much so he vowed RUST would return […]
TRANS AMERICA TRAIL – PART 2
In this second instalment of their Trans American Trail tale, the intrepid Kiwis go from rocky wilderness to verdant Pacific coastline… Canyonland. The name sounds like a wild west themepark, and in some ways it is. This vast (national) park’s rollercoasters are the trails which wend their way up, down, and around through almost 1400 […]
JANE DANIELS
JANE DANIELS Jane Daniels was the UK’s second highest performer in EWC in 2013, with four podiums from six rides. She was the only female rider to beat world champ Laia Sanz in a test all season. And she was doing this after breaking her back in the close season… Jane Daniels only started riding […]
8 CYLINDERS, 3000 MILES, NO MERCY…
It’s early December 2004 in Wurzburg, Germany. Four Harley-Davidsons are being strapped down in their crates. Destination: The end of the world. The itinerary: Buenos Aires to Ushuaia via Ruta 40. The challenges that lie ahead include broken down planes, cracked gearboxes, bottomless gravel, winds from the Antarctic, not to mention the sheer madness of […]
TOM SAGAR: THE THREE AGES OF A RACER
TOM SAGAR: THE THREE AGES OF A RACER Tom Sagar has raced the full gamut. From next big thing, to works world championship racer, to rapid vet (well, very nearly). But he’s always been fast, always a rider to lookout for. In 2015 he showed exactly how fast when won the outright European enduro championship. […]
AUSTRALIA
AUSTRALIA The Australian Outback is an adventure rider’s bucket list destination. In 2016 RUST’s JB was lucky enough to tick this one off, with thanks to his friends at Touratech THE Oodnadatta Track passed under our wheels. At the head of our seven-man group, on their fully equipped 2017 BMW R 1200 GS Rallyes, Herbert […]
THE MOTORCYCLE ART OF JOHN LOWERSON
Blending Swiss organisation and Moroccan terrain, the Agadir Enduro isn’t your typical timecard enduro. And with the help of Wilderness Wheels, Rust’s Alex Waters discovers why… I awake in a tent with five complete strangers and an assortment of bike gear. As I attempt to gather my thoughts the first beats of an old ‘90s […]
THE DEVIL RIDES OUT
There’s much more to Spain’s Costa del Sol than sunburnt stag-dos and British bars… there’s some great dirtbiking there too! Barni joined local tour company Dust Devils to explore the Coast of the Sun… The trail winds its way through the woods, the leaves of the trees turning the strong sun into dappled light on […]
DR SHOX BOOT CAMPS
Dirtbiking is one energetic sport. But so many of us simply wing it when it comes to being fit enough to really enjoy it… and to do it properly. The Dr Shox Boot Camps aim to bring our fitness, and our riding, up to scratch… How’s that New Year’s resolution coming along? Y’know, you promised yourself […]
TUSK FORCE – SAVING THE ELEPHANTS
The poaching situation in Kenya has never been worse. Alex headed out on a one-of-a-kind trail tour to discover the causes and what is being done to combat it… One of the best things for me about working for TBM is the huge number of invitations we receive to go and ride in far-flung corners […]
2014 CAMBRIAN RALLY
The event that started the whole trail-bike and big-bike rally scene – the Cambrian Rally – celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2014. We were there to celebrate its success… Former Dakar racer Craig Bounds summed it up best when he said of this year’s Cambrian Rally… ‘Sure, there’s a bit of legacy going on.’ He […]
ROMANIA – RIGHT TO ROAM
Fancy a trail riding holiday where you’d be forgiven for thinking dirtbikes have the ‘right to roam’? Well that’s just what you get in eastern Europe… The gulley is steep and rocky – careful placement of the front wheel needs to be balanced with maintaining enough momentum to roll over the football-sized stones. The mid-day […]
BEN SWIFT – PRO CYCLIST AND TRAIL RIDER
When über-fit pro cyclist Ben Swift invited us out riding with him, we figured we’d never be able to keep up. Thankfully, he meant trail riding, while we meant cycling. So we combined the two… Whenever I feel like I’ve eaten a few too many Jammy Dodgers and I need to regain some semblance of […]
FOREIGN AFFAIRS – BUCKET LIST EVENTS
Here’s a list of RUST’s favourite – achievable – overseas events you might like to try. Go on, you know you want to… If you ONLY ever do your racing in Britain, then you are missing out on a whole world of competition riding. Whilst Britain has plenty to offer in terms of great dirtbiking […]
GENTLEMAN’S RELISH – RIDING IN NAMIBIA
Stuff camping and boil-in-the-bag dinners, when you ride the dirt with BMW’s head honcho it’s luxury all the way. Welcome to adventure riding for the discerning modern gentleman… Adventure bike sales have been booming since Ewan McGregor and that other bloke rode around the world on a pair of fully loaded BMW R1200GSs… and rightly […]
NICE ONE, CYRIL – 2012 DAKAR RALLY
The 2012 Dakar was won by a Frenchman – Cyril Despres – but he couldn’t have done it without the help of diminutive RUST columnist Chris Evans… Obviously I’m delighted with how things turned out. After almost a year of preparation and sacrifice, to have succeeded in my goal is a source of immense personal […]
VIETNAM BY YAMAHA TTR600 & MINSK 125!
Rory Elliott tells the sorry tale of a trip he took through Vietnam a few years ago… I guess like every story I should start from the beginning. However starting at the beginning is a little difficult, as I’m not really sure when it all started. Was it two years previously whilst walking down a […]
OFF THE MAP – SPANISH PYRENEES
Pyrenean trails; lunchtime feasts; James Bond-style lairs; and motorcycle ‘watersports’ –  Adventurer Richard Bott, takes his CRM250 into the mountains of the Spanish Pyrenees… ‘What’s that? Riding in the Pyrenees? Count me in!’ In a flash I’d agreed to a summertime jaunt down to Spain, to attend a pre-running of Austin Vince’s eponymous navigation challenge, […]
WORLD OF RIDING – RED
Steve Ireland and his WOR (World of Riding) operation have been serving up off-road fun and races for 16 years. We all know WOR for The Tough One extreme enduro they organize – but Steve’s biggest triumph is his RED concept that brings the idea of ‘racing’ to the whole family… Arriving in the paddock […]
READY TO RACE?
READY TO RACE? THE RUST BEGINNER’S GUIDE TO RACING Accessible, fun, friendly and cheap: Hare and Hounds racing is a great way into enduro sport. Yet competing can still seem a daunting prospect to those who’ve never lined-up on a startline before. So here’s our guide to your first tentative steps in the muddy world […]
THE AGADIR ENDURO
Blending Swiss organisation and Moroccan terrain, the Agadir Enduro isn’t your typical timecard enduro. And with the help of Wilderness Wheels, Rust’s Alex Waters discovers why… I awake in a tent with five complete strangers and an assortment of bike gear. As I attempt to gather my thoughts the first beats of an old ‘90s […]
RIDING ACROSS PORTUGAL – END-TO-END
Mik Stansfield decided to turn a long held dream into reality by riding the entire length of Portugal. Here is the story… It all started with one of those ‘riding a long way’ dreams I’m sure we all have from time to time. In this case it was whilst driving up to the Santander ferry […]
TRAIL RIDING FROM CARDIFF TO LLANDUDNO
TRAIL RIDING FROM CARDIFF TO LLANDUDNO Rory Elliot heads to the Land of Our Fathers for an epic adventure trail ride the length of the country… One benefit cars have over bikes for me is that you can be pretty unorganised and not forget to pack a thing. In fact you could give me 20 […]
ROOF OF AFRICA RALLY
ROOF OF AFRICA RALLY More a story of survival than a race report, adventure enthusiast Chris Salt took on the mighty Roof of Africa Rally and lived to tell the tale… I felt weak and dizzy. As I staggered off my bike I realised I was at my limit. I put the bike on a […]
TRIUMPH – THE RAID ON ST NAZAIRE
The WWII commando raid on Saint Nazaire has been dubbed ‘the Greatest Raid of All’. On the anniversary of the legendary mission, we took a Triumph Tiger to the famous French port… We crept out of Falmouth under cover of darkness, the chill night air broken by the hum of a powerful engine. Destination? Saint […]
SWEDISH SNOW ENDURO
SWEDISH SNOW ENDURO When the weather outside is frightful should we tuck ourselves away in front of the fire or get out there and race? Barni flew to Sweden to experience enduro racing in a winter wonderland. Let it snow! Let it snow! Let it snow! The temperature readout on the timecheck’s multi-function clock is […]
COWBOYS IN INDIA – TT-R 600 TRAVELS
Accidentally losing their bikes, bumping into Billy Connolly and discussing world politics with the Dalai Lama. All in days work for Rory Elliot and travelling companion Chris Colling as they travelled around India on Yamaha TT-R 600s… I should have been exhausted, we’d had no sleep for a couple of nights now and it was […]
LEE WALTERS ORT – AT BASKERVILLE HALL
 Fancy some great riding and enduro training at a top all-amenities site… and at an affordable price? Lee Walters has probably the finest enduro school venue that you’ve never heard about… Until Rust Sports clued you in of course… We didn’t find, nor hear, the hound at Baskerville Hall. But given the excited rev of […]
EASTERN EUROPEAN RALLY
Invited to take part in the Eastern European Rally, RUST sent along intrepid Kiwi Nick Lines. Here’s his report… ‘Please come with me Sir….’ Those were the ominous words I was rather hoping to avoid whilst trying to cross the Hungary-Romania border without my passport… We had been having a blast on the Eastern European […]
